Overview

• Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar will appear before the Telangana SIT on August 8 as a witness to present evidence gathered by central intelligence agencies.
• The BJP has petitioned the Telangana High Court to transfer the phone tapping case to the CBI, challenging the SIT’s handling of the inquiry.
• The SIT, constituted by the Congress government after the 2023 elections, has already summoned former SIB chief T Prabhakar Rao and other officers for repeated questioning.
• Investigators are analysing electronic devices seized from four ex-SIB officials arrested in March 2024 for data erasure and unauthorized phone tapping.
• Allegations center on large-scale surveillance of opposition leaders, judges and private citizens under the BRS regime, with former CM K Chandrasekhar Rao implicated by witness statements.